Vol. 4, Issue 5, Part F (2018)

In article questions karakul sheep breeding are considered. These animals can adapt to severe natural-climatic conditions and give high-grade production.

The astrakhan fur made in Karakalpakstan, basically, is characterized by nobleness and a variety of commodity properties that is defined new sort of karakul sheep and intra pedigree astrakhan variety inherent in them. This difference in many respects promotes that it uses a steady consumer demand and commercial success in the -fur market.

Karakul sheep of black and partially severe coloring long since successfully get divorced in a southern part of Karakalpakstan. Last year’s steps on expansion of a zone of cultivation karakul sheep on the north, on Ustyrt Plateau become, try to expand and color assortment of production at the expense of cultivation karakul sheep of grey coloring on which last years the raised demand of the international market is marked. In this connection, studying of productive and some biological features grey karakul sheep in these zones of cultivation, is the actual problem having the big practical and economic value.